"Tidy Up Your Bedroom"

Angular

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If artists like this popped up all the time, the term "angular" wouldn't just be a clichĂŠ for male Chapel Hill-style indie-guitar bands. But there's something infinitely charming about bands like this, who decide to play all the wrong notes in all the wrong order and somehow make it a hook. All-female UK trio Wetdog's vision has more logic than Erase Errata but less body than the lavishly reissued Pylon. Their brand of garage noise is both surfy and no wave-ish, with bored moans for lyrics and a culminating "whoa-oh/eeeeiiiiiooo" chorus that would make spiritual forebears LiLiPUT squeak in proud delight. Aside from the dada-like meaninglessness, the overall impression is yours for the taking: spirited, sloppy, childlike, strangely hummable at the weirdest times, rhythmically tight, a ham-organ solo for extra B-movie trash effect. Significance? They're certainly not straining for it. But worth a listen if you cherish your copies of No New York and The B-52's equally.